5:30
Jesus echoes His words of 5:19, saying He can do nothing on His own. The Trinity is most definitely not tri-theism, there is one God, three persons. So in Jesus being the judge we have not got a different judge! People sometimes see the God of the Old Testament and Jesus as being opposed to each other, one of them full of wrath, the other full of love and mercy. This is a completely erroneous picture. The judgement that Jesus gives is the judgement that God gives. Jesus is not an unjust judge. He does not see the position as an opportunity to get His own way, but to do the will of “Him who sent me”.
5:31,32
Jesus has now made a whole bundle of audacious claims about Himself. Why should they be believed? Jesus stresses that He is not alone in bearing witness about Himself. If He was the only such witness then the Jewish leaders would have grounds for rejecting His testimony. The first witness He claims is that of John the Baptist, who had said clearly that Jesus was the lamb of God.
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